Sustainable Approaches
Can Fashion Trends of Self-sustainability Lead to a Paradigm Shift in our Society?
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Devika Sharma Pathak, Nandini Lal
The fashion industry has been celebrated for more than a century. We have also started to witness the ill side-effects. Fashion is listed as the second most polluting industry after petroleum. As an educated generation of this industry, we have to acknowledge the responsibility to find a solution rather than sit back and contribute to cynicism. ‘Solve problems not just for mankind but for all life on earth .’(Bruce Mau 2016) A large percentage of the fashion industry still functions against sustainability, but at the same time we have many design educators and researchers in the fashion field believing, creating, and pushing sustainable and responsible concepts in fashion education. A decade ago these changes may have seemed impossible but now we are witnessing a huge wave of awareness, acceptance, and willingness to change. As faculty, we have been witness to graduating collections of students in various design institutes across India - eg. Pearl Academy, NIFT, NID etc. A quantitative and qualitative study of last ten years of graduating collections reflects a favorable increase in students working with sustainability concepts. Many students are incorporating these aspects of sustainability, from minimum or zero wastage of raw materials amd energy to eco-friendly creative surface developments, less machines, and more hand made. Does this mean that evolved design thinking and sustainable concepts in fashion could change our society life style? That is what we explore in this study.
Enhancing Infrastructure Resilience through Creative Design: Perspectives on a Global Policy for Urban Sustainability
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Rajan Sen
Strategic planning for sustainable urban development is a global priority in the new millennium. An unprecedented surge in urban populations has led to the creation of megacities with uncontrolled growth, changes in land use, damage to the ecology, collectively resulting in increased vulnerability. Recent extreme natural events have exacerbated these problems. Intelligent solutions for resilient urban infrastructure will require effective, practical and informed policy making. This scientific study will identify innovative engineering ideas, new smart technologies, and successfully applied policies for better hazard mitigation to strongly support and facilitate an urban growth that is resilient, sustainable, affordable and long lasting.
Expanding Creative Briefs to Make the Design Serve a Bigger Purpose: Case Study on Including Students into Making the Branded Train in the Moscow Metro for Krasnoyarsk Winter Universiade
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Tatiana Alisova
More than making beautiful things, design should be conscious about what it can do to improve the world. From little changes like educating and entertaining people on their everyday commute, design can change people's perceptions. While solving creative briefs, design could also build the trust between commercial companies and young professionals. It can inspire young people to take a step towards creating their own visual context, to explore their possibilities as professional designers. In this paper, we share our recent case study of making a branded train for the Krasnoyarsk 2019 Winter Universiade, designed with student competition winners, which have been launched on the Moscow Metro. The concept for the design of the train was developed by winners of a contest held for design students, who created the visual imagery, national ornaments, and graphic elements that were finally utilised in decorating the branded train.
